retard, retardant, consume, gallivant, louche

“The Lady Eve” may be Preston Sturges’s most beloved film. Henry Fonda plays Charles (Hopsie) Pike, a lanky heir to an ale fortune who dabbles as a snake expert. While travelling on a cruise ship, Hopsie falls for a con woman named Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck). After realizing that Jean has been deceiving him, he sulks off to his Connecticut manor, where he encounters Jean again, though this time she has disguised herself as Lady Eve Sidwich, a louche aristocrat. The zany setup involves several layers of self-deception—a theme Sturges explores in many of his films. Read more about the master of the screwball comedy: http://nyer.cm/vo2JqB0

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“Genji’s World in Japanese Wood-Block Prints” opens with some examples of earlier illustrations related to the original tale. Then it quickly plunges us into the strangely time-warped world of the Kunisadas, in which the “Rustic Genji” hero Mitsuuji, who lives in the 15th century, follows in the footsteps of his 11th-century counterpart, Prince Genji, wearing 19th-century styles and gallivanting through a latter-day Japan that Lady Murasaki wouldn’t recognize.

Coca-Cola apologises to family over ‘You Retard’ bottle cap message

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Blake Loates shows a printed bottle cap with the words ‘You Retard’ (Picture: AP /The Canadian Press via Blake Loates)

Drinks company Coca-Cola has apologised to a family who found a ‘You Retard’ message printed inside a bottle cap.
Shocked Blake Loates, from Alberta, Canada, discovered the offensive message after purchasing a bottle of Vitamin Water.
‘We immediately thought, you have got to be kidding me?’ she told the Huffington Post Alberta.
‘We thought it might been a disgruntled employee or someone in a (bottling) plant playing a joke.
Ms Loates took a picture of the bottle cap and sent it to her father, Doug Loates, who then wrote a letter of complaint to the drinks firm.

Doug Loates wrote a letter of complaint to Coca-Cola (Picture: scribd)

Referring to his daughter Fiona, who has cerebral palsy, Mr Loates wrote: ‘Can you imagine if SHE had opened this bottle???
‘The ‘R’ word is considered a swear word in our family. We don’t use it. We don’t tolerate others using it around us.
‘We ARE over sensitive but you would be too if you had Fiona for a daughter!’
Coca-Cola apologised, blaming it on a competition where random French and English words were printed on their caps. With the r-word meaning ‘late’ or ‘delayed’ in French.
‘We did not mean to offend at all,’ said Shannon Denny, director of brand communications.

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With thousands of residents evacuated, firefighters are battling vast blazes in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. Above, an air tanker dropped fire retardant in Utah.

retard

verb

Pronunciation: /rɪˈtɑːd/

[with object]

• delay or hold back in terms of progress or development:his progress was retarded by his limp

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈriːtɑːd/

informal, offensive

• a person who has a mental disability (often used as a general term of abuse).

Phrases

in retard

British formal behind in terms of development or progress:I was in retard of them in real knowledge

Derivatives

retardation

Pronunciation: /riːtɑːˈdeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

retarder

noun

retardment

noun ( rare)

Origin:

late 15th century: from French retarder, from Latin retardare, from re- 'back' + tardus 'slow'

retardant[re・tard・ant]

• 発音記号[ritɑ'ːrdnt]  [名]《化学》遅延反応剤.

━━[形]〈物が〉（効果などを）遅らせる.

retard[re・tard]

• 発音記号[ritɑ'ːrd][動](他)((形式))〈成長・進歩などを〉遅くする；…を手間どらせる；…を阻止［妨害］する.

━━(自)〈潮の干満・天体の運行などが〉遅れる.

━━[名]

1 [U][C]遅れ, 遅延；妨害.

2 〔rítrd

retardate

[名]((米))発達遅滞児.

retardation

[名][U][C]1 遅延, 遅滞；妨害（物）.2 知能の遅滞.3 《物理学》減速度（⇔acceleration）.4 《音楽》掛留(けいりゅう). （またre・tárd・ment）

retarded

[形]知能の遅れた a mentally retarded pupil遅進児.

retarder

[名]（

consume[con・sume]

• 
  
• 発音記号[kənsúːm | -sjúːm]

[動](他)

1 …を消費［消耗］する, 使い果たす(use up)；…を浪費する

consume hours in reading
読書に幾時間も費やす

consume a whole roll of film
フィルム1本を使い切る

This machine consumes 10 percent of all the power we use.
この機械はここでの使用電力の1割を食う.

2 ((形式))…を食べ［飲み］尽くす, （すっかり）平らげる

consume a bottle of whiskey
ウイスキーを1本空ける.

3 ((形式))〈火災・病気・悲嘆などが〉…を消滅させる, 破壊する

A huge fire consumed the entire block.
大火がその区画全体を焼き尽くした

Illness consumed his spirit.
病気で彼の快活さがなくなった.

4 〈嫉妬(しっと)・憎悪・野心などが〉〈人を〉夢中にさせる, 身を焦がす；〈人の心に〉食い入る；((受身または〜 -self))（感情に）かられる, 圧倒される((with ...))

be consumed with greed
欲の皮が張っている

The boy consumed himself with resentment.
少年は憤りにかられた.

━━(自)（←(他)）

1 消費する

propensity to consume
《経済》消費性向（所得に対する消費支出の割合）.

2 〈生物が〉衰弱する((away)).

［ラテン語consūmere（con-完全に＋sūmereとる＝完全にとる）. △ASSUME, PRESUME, RESUME］

con・súm・ing

[形]((限定))激しい；身を焦がすような.活動などを）遅らせるもの；《化学》抑制剤.

〕 ((米・軽蔑))知能の遅れた人.

［ラテン語retardāre （re-強意＋tardāre遅くする）. △TARDY］

re・tard・er

[名]（活動などを）遅らせるもの；《化学》抑制剤.

gallivant

Pronunciation: /ˈgalɪvant, ˌgalɪˈvant/

Translate gallivant | into German | into Italian

verb

[no object, with adverbial] informal

• go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment:she quit her job to go gallivanting around the globe

Origin:

early 19th century: perhaps an alteration of gallant

Spelling help

Spell gallivant with a double l.

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gallivanting leads to a louche lifestyle.


louche

Pronunciation: /luːʃ/

adjective

• disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way:the louche world of the theatre

Derivatives

loucheness

noun

Origin:

early 19th century: from French, literally 'squinting'